General LegalIT

Virtual meetings have been a thing for a while. I’ve been doing video meetings for the last 3 years and I’ll admit it was very awkward at first, but I eased into it. I never wanted to be on camera and found it to be drudgery, but today I’ve done a pivot and loving the…

While it does feel like we are in one of those Hollywood epidemic movies like Contagion or Outbreak, thank the stars it isn’t like World War Z! We are constantly being bombarded with facts and figures of the worst kind and how to stay safe and healthy in this new age of COVID-19. Many employers…

Have you thought about how to define a project as a success or failure? Many times, we think of it in the simplest of terms as defined in the triple constraint: Was it completed on schedule? Did we remain within the initial budget? Was it delivered with a high level of quality? These can indeed…

Summer is here and for many of us this means time away from the office. The reality is that as much as we would like to “unplug” during these times, client and office demands prevent us from having this luxury. We still need to communicate with colleagues and clients and have access to pertinent documents…

Law firms continue to increase spending on new technologies year after year. An often-overlooked key component is training. In order to maximize user adoption which ultimately impacts productivity employees need proper training. What about new employees who come on board or additional modules that are purchased after the initial implementation? It is imperative to have a training program in place to accommodate these…

On July 9, 2019 support ends for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. On January 14, 2020 support will end for Server 2008 and 2008 R2. Are you still running any production workloads on these two vulnerable products? If you are, what’s your plan for migrating to a supported platform prior to end of support? …

As many firms consider the possibilities of upgrading to Work 10, what comes into question is the current state of their iManage environment and is it truly ready for this move. When was the last time you took a detailed look into your current iManage environment and Database? Today we will take a high-level look…

With iManage Work 10, email filing capabilities have expanded outside of the realms of Outlook with iManage Work 10 Email Management for Gmail. Not only does this make filing more convenient for users it, but the implementation by administrators is extremely simple. If a user would like to file emails in their email inbox, administrators would…

Text messaging has become a powerful business tool, but as the often-quoted Spider-Man phrase goes, with great power comes great responsibility. And that responsibility falls on the enterprise to manage business related text messages as they would any other type of official business record. In the not too distant past, capturing email correspondence as a…

Panama, Paradise, Publicity P.T. Barnum receives attribution for the phrase “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”. I think there are a large number of offshore investors who may be disagreeing with that statement this week. The Panama and Paradise Paper revelations have placed an exclamation point on the importance of an aggressive security posture. As the game of cat and…